Job summary
An exciting new opportunity has arise for a Cognitive Analytic Therapist to work within the Greenfields Community Mental Health Team.
The successful candidate will be an autonomous clinical practitioner, responsible for their own actions within the context of professional and ACAT guidelines and the overall framework of service objectives an policies.
The post-holder will provide Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT) and contribute to the development of CAT within the Trust including supervision, teaching and training in CAT within the Trust, in consultation with Lead Psychologists, Trust Managers and University Partners.
Main duties of the job
- Drawing on the CAT model, will provide specialist CAT assessment, formulation and intervention to clients with a range of complex mental health needs, involving the clients' family/informal carers as required.
- Support the development of CAT within the service through providing direct and indirect interventions, working collaboratively with MDT colleagues to inform clinical work and care planning via CAT formulation when direct work is not viable.
- Provide advice and consultation on psychological issues to colleagues within the Trust and to other multi-agency professionals including training.
- Work with senior Trust colleagues and University partners to increase access to CAT within the Trust. To support training initiatives which will allow colleagues to gain relevant skills and knowledge in using CAT in clinical practice
Please see Job description for full information.
About us
Our vision is 'To be Outstanding in all we do and how we do it.' Our teams pride themselves on compassion, team work and resilience. The Trust supports you by offering a flexible shift system including twilight shifts, DBS and our staff parking is free on all our main sites.
Our team is on an incredible journey of innovation and we'd like you to be part of it.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To provide specialist assessments for clients with a range of complex mental health needs, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a range of sources, including psychological tools as required and considering the broader familial, social and service context.
- To develop provisional hypotheses and shared formulations with clients and carers and from this to determine appropriate formal psychological therapies, psychosocial interventions and other strategies to manage mental health problems, referring to other appropriate services where required.
- To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options, taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models, and highly complex and idiosyncratic factors concerning historical and developmental processes, and to communicate this information appropriately to client, family/informal carers and professional carers.
- To deliver cognitive analytic therapy to clients and their family/informal carers using individual, family or group approaches which are informed by individual need, client choice and evidence base and which draw upon the appropriate theory and research relating to cognitive analytic therapy.
- To continually monitor and evaluate the cognitive analytic interventions provided to clients, employing service specific outcome measures as required, reformulating and adjusting hypotheses and interventions as new information becomes available and liaising effectively with other professionals involved in the care of the clients.
Please see Job description for full details
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To provide specialist assessments for clients with a range of complex mental health needs, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a range of sources, including psychological tools as required and considering the broader familial, social and service context.
- To develop provisional hypotheses and shared formulations with clients and carers and from this to determine appropriate formal psychological therapies, psychosocial interventions and other strategies to manage mental health problems, referring to other appropriate services where required.
- To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options, taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models, and highly complex and idiosyncratic factors concerning historical and developmental processes, and to communicate this information appropriately to client, family/informal carers and professional carers.
- To deliver cognitive analytic therapy to clients and their family/informal carers using individual, family or group approaches which are informed by individual need, client choice and evidence base and which draw upon the appropriate theory and research relating to cognitive analytic therapy.
- To continually monitor and evaluate the cognitive analytic interventions provided to clients, employing service specific outcome measures as required, reformulating and adjusting hypotheses and interventions as new information becomes available and liaising effectively with other professionals involved in the care of the clients.
Please see Job description for full details
Person Specification
Essential
Essential
- Relevant Qualification
- Relevant Experience
Person Specification
Essential
Essential
- Relevant Qualification
- Relevant Experience
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
